{"id":14797,"date":"2012-03-27T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T11:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14797"},"modified":"2012-03-27T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:03:15","slug":"14797","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/27\/14797\/","title":{"rendered":"So much for an objective H M Revenue &#038; Customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a presentation at the Social Market Foundation this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Xxxxxx Xxxxx was there. She is the Director of xxxxxxxxxxx at HM Revenue &amp; Customs.<\/p>\n<p>In response to discussion on country-by-country reporting she said the was no evidence it would help the UK in targeting transfer pricing abuse and so would not aid revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, in January 2010, when she reported to Labour's Stephen Timms MP, who was an enthusiast for country-by-country reporting, she told the OECD that country-by-country reporting would help the UK and it would undoubtedly help revenue raising by considerably improving risk assessment and the targeting of resources on transfer pricing issues.<\/p>\n<p>So much for an impartial civil service.<\/p>\n<p>So much for an objective HMRC.<\/p>\n<p>NB: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/27\/hmrc-dont-want-to-be-quoted\/\" target=\"_blank\">This blog has been amended at the request of HMRC, not that they had the courage to ask me to do so themselves<\/a>. Apparently they don't like me reporting what they say - although they're ready at any moment to brief against me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a presentation at the Social Market Foundation this morning. Xxxxxx Xxxxx was there. She is the Director of xxxxxxxxxxx at HM Revenue &amp;<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/27\/14797\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-by-country","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}